Curtain ring or hanger



(No Model.)

J. W. LESLIE.

CURTAIN RING OR HANGER.

No. 388,055. Patented Aug. 21, 1888.

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J. WILLIAM LESLIE, 0F EVERETT, MASSACHUSETTS.

CURTAIN RlNG OR HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 388.055, dated August 21, 1888.

Application filed April 11, 1888. Serial No. 270,314. (N 0 model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J. WILLIAM LESLIE, of Everett, county of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Curtain Rings or Hangers, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention is an improvement upon United States Letters Patent No. 365,692, granted June 28, 1887.

In the patent referred to a tubular ring was employed, cut away upon one side to present a recess in which was placed a yoke having ears and projections to hold the same firmly in place, and a roller was journaled in the yoke.

In order to manufacture the yoke cheaply, it was made of sheet metal cut out and struck up into shape, and holes were made in the arms of the yoke which received the journals of the roller, and in practice, the yoke being made of sheet metal, a very narrow hearing was presented or formed for the journal. After the ring has been used for a short time the journals are cut off, and hence the ring is worthless.

In accordance with this invention the yoke is provided with journalreceiving holesor recesses, and also with bearing projections or lips, by which additional bearingsurfaecs are presented for the journals. These additional bearing surfaces may be formed in several different ways, the most practical of which will he hereinafter more fully set forth.

Figure 1 shows in side elevation and partial section a curtainring provided with a yoke embodying this invention. Fig. 2 shows a sectional detail of the yoke shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 3, an end View of the yoke shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 4, a front elevation of a modified form of yoke; Fig. 5, an end view. of the yoke shown in Fig. 4; Fig. 6, 'another modified form of yoke, and Fig. 7 an end view of the yoke shown in Fig. 6.

The ring a, made in any usual manner and cut away, as at c, and the yoke a made of a single piece of metal, having its ends 2 2 bent upwardly at substantially right angles, and having the ears 4 4, are all substantially as in the patent referred to. Each arm 2 of the yoke has a recess or socket to receive the journal 5 of the roller a. In Fig. 2 the sockets are formed by slitting the arms 2 to form a tongue which is bent outwardly at right angles to the arms 2, as at 7 and again bent at right angles to the portions 7, as at 8. The portions 8 bear against the interior of the ring (see Fig. 1) to aid in holding the yoke in position in the opening of the ring. Theoutwardly-extended portions 7 of the tongue form additional bearings, as shown, for the journals 5 of the roller a, so that in use the journal will not be cut off, as is the case with the yoke shown and described in the patent referred to.

Referring to Figs. 4 and 5, the journal-receiving socket is out and the material is turned outwardly at right angles to the arm 2 of the yoke to form a lip corresponding with the portion 7, (shown in Fig. 2,) thus providing an additional bearing for the journal, and instead of the portion 8, for aiding in holding the yoke in position, the projection 3 is employed, as in the patent referred to.

In Figs. 6 and 7 the arms 2 have at their extreme ends slender tongues which are bent to present loops 9, terminating adjacent to or in line with that side of the journal-receiving socket in the arm 2 of the yoke with which the journals come in contact, so that the terminating portions or sides of the loops 9 shall constitute additional bearings for the journals. It will be seen that in either construction shown a like result is derived; and hence I do not desire to limit my invention to the precise construction employed.

I claim-- In a curtain ring or hanger, the ring having a roller-receiving recess, combined with a yoke fitted into the roller-receiving recess, the arms of the said yoke having journal receiving sockets or openings and laterally-extended journal-bearings, as described, and the roller journaled in the yoke, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

J. WILLIAllI LESLIE.

Witnesses:

BnRNIoE .I. NOYES, J. (J. Scans. 

